Posted on 12/07/2023 3:54:44 PM PST by Libloather
Former Democratic Nashville Mayor Megan Barry on Wednesday announced a U.S. House bid to unseat Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., seeking a political comeback more than five years after she faced now-dismissed criminal charges linked to her having an extramarital affair with her city-employed bodyguard.
In her announcement video, she cited several reasons for trying to return to elected office: a spate of mass shootings at schools, including earlier this year at a Nashville Christian elementary school, which was carried out by a transgender activist and former student; Tennessee's abortion ban; the closure of rural hospitals; and the opioid epidemic.
"Today, I’m announcing my campaign for Congress because working families have been ignored for far too long," Barry said in a video posted on her campaign website. "We need an economy and a government that works for everyone. If I can save even one other parent from burying a child, it will be worth every effort."
Barry, elected in 2015 as the first female mayor of Nashville, resigned from that office in 2018 after pleading guilty to felony theft for cheating the city out of thousands of dollars to carry on a nearly two-year affair with her then-police bodyguard, Sgt. Rob Forrest. She agreed to reimburse the city for $11,000 in unlawful expenses. After completing three years of unsupervised probation, the charge was expunged from her record in 2021, according to The Tennessean.
In the video, Barry said she had "made mistakes," but she took responsibility and worked through them with her husband.
"I don't think anybody should be defined by their worst moments," Barry said. "It's what you do next that counts."
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This adulterer is a female.
Exactly! That’ll win 30-40% of the votes instantly!
Just like all lefties.
‘i’m from the gov’t (again), and i’m here to ‘help’ (again).
uh, no thanks. Nashville’s in bad enough shape as it is, probably from your first stint.
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